CASS Events

&nbspSEMINAR High Country Politics: Rick Farley and the Kosciuzko National Park Plan of Management
Thursday, 12 November 2009 at 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
McDonald Room, Menzies Library
Biographies are typically the study of one life by one author. Rick Farley's biography (or this version) is being co-authored by a historian and a landscape architect. This collaboration could be described as contextualised narrative (history) meeting applied case study (landscape architecture). The intention is to bring different professional logics and motivations together in the study of one life and in a single biographical text. more»

&nbspCONCERT Geoffrey Lancaster - Final performance
Sunday, 22 November 2009 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Foyer, National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT
As part of the School of Music Haydn Festival, Haydn's complete keyboard sonatas will be performed in a series of concerts performed by internationally acclaimed fortepianist Geoffrey Lancaster (using 18th century instruments housed in the ANU School of Music's nationally-unique keyboard collection). more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE From the United Nations Universal Periodic Review to an Asia Pacific Human Rights Institution
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 at 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, College of Law
The Asia-Pacific region combines states with widely varying human rights records and institutions. There are both democratic states with strong human rights records and undemocratic states which violate the rights of their citizens in a gross and flagrant manner. Is it possible, with such a stark contrast, to construct a human rights institution which functions effectively across the region? more»

&nbspWORKSHOP The Economics of Happiness
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 at 8:15 AM - 1:00 PM
The Finkel Lecture Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Rd
This conference draws together three researchers with international reputations in the economics of happiness. They will present new findings, and discuss how the happiness can help answer fundamental questions of economic growth, inequality, labour markets and household production. Attend this event, and you will never again describe economics as 'the dismal science'. more»

&nbspSEMINAR C.F. Volney and the Science of Politics and Morality in Revolutionary France
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 at 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre, Building 130, Garran Rd
The Key Thinkers Seminar Series draws on prominent academics who discuss the significance and legacy of intellectuals, activists, writers, and artists, those 'key thinkers' who have been important influences on their work. In this seminar Dr Alexander Cook will disscuss Constantin François Volney more»

&nbspSYMPOSIUM Gender, Politics and Biography
Monday, 9 November 2009 at 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Members Dining Room 2, Old Parliament House, King George Tce, Parkes
Join some of Australia's most eminent political commentators, activists and biographers to discuss gender and representation in the political environment. more»

&nbspSEMINAR 'Dancing with the River' (and making a home) in the CharLands of Lower Bengal, India.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Seminar Room B, (Arndt Room) Coombs Building
How can one interpret the land, the environment and livelihoods of people living in the Charlands - little islands formed within the river beds in the deltaic flats such as Bengal? How does one think about the fixed categories such as land and water, or vulnerability and security? more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE The Law and Economics of Globalisation: New Challenges for a World in Flux - Meet the Author Series 2009
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 at 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lecture Theatre 3, Manning Clark Centre, Building 26a, Union Court
Dr Linda Yueh's interests are in law and economics, as applied to economic growth and development, with a particular interest in China and the effects of international economic law on development. more»

&nbspCONCERT Friends' Young Performers Concerts
Saturday, 7 November 2009 at 3:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Band Room, ANU School of Music
Come and enjoy music by the up and coming talents from the School of Music's pre-tertiary program. Students from the local region will perform a variety of pieces and styles. This concert is proudly supported by the Friends of the School of Music. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Is 'New Labour' Dead - what will be the Blair Legacy?
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 at 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
The Finkel Theatre, The John Curtain School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Road
The election of the 'New Labour' government in Britain led by Prime Minister Tony Blair was seen by many as creating a revolution not only in UK politics but in many other countries that adopted similar policies. Based on a 'Third Way' centrist political philosophy that sought to overcome the traditional left-right demarcation of political debate, Tony Blair's New Labour Government seemed to be spectacularly successful and electorally popular. more»

&nbspCONCERT The Origin Cycle
Friday, 13 November 2009 at 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM
ANU School of Music, Big Band Room, Peter Karmel Building
Eight musical settings of text from Charles Darwin's Origin of Species featuring Ensemble Offspring with Jane Sheldon, soprano and Roland Peelman, conductor. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE The Protection of Human Rights in Australia - A Way Forward, The Alice Tay Lecture on Law & Human Rights 2009
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 at 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Finkel Theatre, The John Curtain School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Road
In this lecture Ms Kostakidis will discuss the themes that emerged from the 40,000 responses that were received during this consultation and outline the suite of measures which the committee saw as the way forward to better protect and promote human rights and responsibilities. more»

&nbspSYMPOSIUM After the Iron Curtain: Transitions and Transformations in Central Europe, 1989-2009
Monday, 16 November 2009 at 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The ANU National Europe Centre, 1 Liversidge St (Bldg 67C), Canberra 2601 ACT
Mr Ernst Gelegs, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Budapest. Mr Dennis Shanahan, The Australian. Dr Bruce Kent, ANU. HE Mr Gábor Csaba, Ambassador of Hungary. HE Mr Michael Witter, Ambassador of Germany. The Hon Mr Robert McClelland, Federal Attorney General of Australia. more»

&nbspSYMPOSIUM Out from Underground: Censorship and the Arts
Saturday, 5 December 2009 at 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes
Liberalisation in the early 1970s, Australia witnessed decades of strict censorship and exactly what was targeted is still being uncovered. The impact of censorship on culture and the arts as well as on the country's relations with the rest of the world has remained relatively obscure. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Cape to Cairo in a Colonial Cocoon
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Seminar Room A - Coombs Bldg 9 Rm 1002
The paper will focus on the aspect of the recently transcribed and analysed diary and letters written by Historian Jessie Webb during the journey of two Melbourne women from Cape Town to Cairo. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Indonesia in Exile: The Indonesian Left Abroad During the Late Cold War
Friday, 13 November 2009 at 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Theatrette, Old Canberra House, Building 73, Lennox Crossing
This work-in-progress paper discusses the development of diasporic left-wing communities of Indonesian political exiles, who were unable to return safely to their homeland after the rise to power of the New Order of Major-General Suharto from 1 October 1965. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Conversible Worlds: Literature, Gender and Sociability 1760-1800
Friday, 20 November 2009 at 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Theatrette, Old Canberra House
In 'Of Essay Writing' David Hume declared women 'the Sovereigns of the Empire of Conversation'. Women were certainly identified with social talk in the eighteenth century. They were able to wield power and influence, at least, but not only, in cultural and literary fields, via their management of conversation. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Freilich Foundation Eminent Lecturer Series: Women & War Lecture 2: Professor J Ann Tickner
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1
Professor Hilary Charlesworth and other eminent scholars will deliver a series of lectures on the theme of Women and War. This lecture series will consider women's complex relationship to war and conflict. It will investigate the images of womanhood that are used in decisions about the use of force as well as the effect of conflict on women. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Freilich Foundation Eminent Lecturer Series: Women and War - Lecture 3 - Dr Bina D'Costa
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1
Professor Hilary Charlesworth and other eminent scholars will deliver a series of lectures on the theme of Women and War. This lecture series will consider women's complex relationship to war and conflict. It will investigate the images of womanhood that are used in decisions about the use of force as well as the effect of conflict on women. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Freilich Foundation Eminent Lecturer Series: Women and War - Lecture 4 - Professor Penelope Andrews
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre HB1
Professor Hilary Charlesworth and other eminent scholars will deliver a series of lectures on the theme of Women and War. This lecture series will consider women's complex relationship to war and conflict. It will investigate the images of womanhood that are used in decisions about the use of force as well as the effect of conflict on women. more»